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Category:Die Hard (film series)

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Category:Die Hard (film series) arcade and video games

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Category:AFC Ajax Vrouwen

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Category:AFC Ajax Vrouwen players

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Transportation network companies

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The result of the discussion was: rename. MER-C 02:51, 8 January 2020 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: rename per WP:C2D, Transportation network company has been renamed to Ridesharing company after an RM. This is follow-up on this earlier nomination and follow-up on the opposed speedy request collapsed below. @ Oculi, Rathfelder, Danstarr69, and ArmosNights: pinging contributors to the earlier CfD discussion. @ Sionk: I am willing to propose upmerging the smaller categories in a later nomination, but that should not delay the implementation of the current renaming request. Marcocapelle ( talk) 21:08, 31 December 2019 (UTC) reply
copy of speedy renaming discussion
    • Oppose all, on the basis 'Ridesharing' is a questionable description for many of these companies (as made clear in the Ridesharing company article). The existing categories adequately describe the contents (and several are already containing only one or two articles so their existence is questionable, they certianly shouldn't be further sub-divided). Sionk ( talk) 16:53, 26 December 2019 (UTC) reply

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Category:Middle-earth plants

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The result of the discussion was: delete. MER-C 02:49, 8 January 2020 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: Only one non-redirect entry, and no parent category, so I see no apparent function for this category. Hog Farm ( talk) 20:27, 31 December 2019 (UTC) reply

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Category:Middle-earth swords

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The result of the discussion was: merge. MER-C 02:52, 8 January 2020 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: Only one non-redirect article in the Middle-earth swords category, so no point in having a subcat of weapons just for swords now. Hog Farm ( talk) 20:25, 31 December 2019 (UTC) reply

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Category:People associated with Star Trek

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The result of the discussion was: delete. MER-C 02:49, 8 January 2020 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: Too vague to be meaningful. 109.186.52.23 ( talk) 18:02, 31 December 2019 (UTC) reply
Good enough. — swpb T •  go beyond •  bad idea 19:12, 7 January 2020 (UTC) reply

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Category:The Fireman (band) songs

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The result of the discussion was: delete. MER-C 02:49, 8 January 2020 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: 38 redirects for songs (and not one actual article) that take you to one of three albums doesn't make this a very useful category, at least no better than what Category:The Fireman (band) albums already offers. Previously nominated in March 2013 with minimal discussion resulting in no consensus (one of the song's did have an article then, which has since been redirected). Starcheerspeaksnewslostwars Talk to me 18:00, 31 December 2019 (UTC) reply

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Category:Southern Death Cult

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The result of the discussion was: delete. MER-C 02:49, 8 January 2020 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: A band with an article for one album, which is already appropriately categorized in an albums category, negates any need for this eponymous parent. WP:SMALLCAT, WP:OCEPON. Starcheerspeaksnewslostwars Talk to me 17:51, 31 December 2019 (UTC) reply

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Countries and territories by language family

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Category:Grape pest arthropods

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The result of the discussion was: merge. MER-C 02:54, 8 January 2020 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: This is an unnecessary category layer that uses a specialist term (see, for example, this). Note: A further CFD could remove similar category layers e.g. Category:Pest arthropods. Note: if (e.g. if more articles are added) an additional category layer is needed it would be better to use the term "invertebrates". DexDor (talk) 14:20, 31 December 2019 (UTC) reply
  • Support, apart from the insects subcategory there is not much content here. Marcocapelle ( talk) 19:26, 31 December 2019 (UTC) reply
  • Merge, no need for this small category, parent categories aren't very large. 19:52, 31 December 2019 (UTC)
  • Merge we don't need tiny categories for every node in the tree of life. Creator of this category was blocked for this kind of thing. If there was a sea cucumber that attacked grapevines, Caftaric would've likely created "Grape pest deuterostomes" along with the category for arthropods. Plantdrew ( talk) 03:40, 6 January 2020 (UTC) reply

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Category:Potentially distressing articles

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The result of the discussion was: delete. MER-C 02:49, 8 January 2020 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: April 2019 category seems to contravene Wikipedia:No disclaimers in articles (and I'm not sure how it would fit into the category hierarchy?) Le Deluge ( talk) 09:49, 31 December 2019 (UTC) reply

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Category:Science martyrs

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Romanian awards

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The result of the discussion was: merge. MER-C 02:52, 8 January 2020 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: merge per WP:SMALLCAT, each of the categories only contains the eponymous article and a subcategory of recipients. Marcocapelle ( talk) 21:41, 23 November 2019 (UTC) reply
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, MER-C 09:23, 7 December 2019 (UTC) reply
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
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Category:Beathard family

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The result of the discussion was: delete. MER-C 02:49, 8 January 2020 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: No parent article, no evidence that these people are collectively referred to as the "Beathard family". WP:SYNTH, WP:OCAT. Ten Pound Hammer( What did I screw up now?) 04:08, 23 December 2019 (UTC) reply
  • Keep, on the basis very few of the many 'family' categories have a parent article. There seems to be an accepted convention to group related notable people in this fashion (and Beathard is sufficiently unusual to not be confused with other people). I'd question its parent cats, all the same, because most are sportsmen but a couple are not. If there was a wider discussion about the suitability of these 'family' categories, I'd be interested to know the outcome. Sionk ( talk) 17:22, 26 December 2019 (UTC) reply
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Category:Indigenous American Catholic saints

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The result of the discussion was: rename to Category:Indigenous Catholic saints of the Americans. MER-C 10:43, 18 January 2020 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: This category is being used for more than saints of the Catholic Church. If it will be used for Santa Muerte and other "deities" that are folk saints outside the Church, it should not carry the name "Catholic". Elizium23 ( talk) 20:12, 23 December 2019 (UTC) reply
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